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President Jimmy Carter took office on January 20, 1977. ... He was not a good president, because his programs were unsuccessful and he did not have the support of his people. ... The dominating aspect of the Carter’s foreign policy is the relations between the United States and the Soviets. Carter came up with the SALT II arms reduction proposal, which was a strongly rejected. Carter approached relations with the Soviet Union in a conciliatory manner. ... That is the reason the Soviets invaded Afghanistan without fear of Carter. Carter’s presidency is also tried by the Iranian hostage situation in 1979. Meanwhile Carter is not able to control the energy crisis at home. ... Also, after Carter was unable to deal with the energy situation, he blamed the American people instead of himself. There was an extremely high rate of inflation as well as unemployment during Carter’s presidency.
The Carter years were marked by an extremely poor economic record. ... The inflation rate during Carter’s presidency rose from 6. ... The unemployment rate during Carter’s presidency was an extremely high 6. ... (American) Carter’s first attempt to end inflation was an ambitious spending program, and then called for the Federal Reserve to expand the money supply. ... Carter then nominated Paul Volcker as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board to battle inflation. ... Carter had previously denounced this solution in his in his Anti-inflation speech, “The other [solution] is a deliberate recession which would throw millions of people out of work. ... ”(Carter, “Anti-Inflation”) However, even after this speech Volcker sought to defeat rising inflation by tightening the money supply, which Carter knew would raise unemployment. ... Another tactic that the Carter administration used was deregulation. Carter deregulated air and surface transportation along with the savings and loan industry. ...
The energy crisis was huge problem for Carter’s administration. Carter tried avoiding the problem but it soon became too large. ... (American) A bill was introduced to congress in February 1974 that would give the president more authority over the distribution of oil products. ... Carter was the next president elected and was faced with a big problem. ... During this time Carter’s approval rating dropped to 25%, which was even lower than Nixon’s during the Watergate scandal.(American)
Carter clearly did not have the support that he wanted from the people. President Carter cancelled his vacation in order to work on his fifth speech on energy conservation. ... So instead of giving an energy conservation speech, Jimmy Carter brought people to Camp David with him to discus the problem. ... Carter sat and listened to criticism while taking notes. At the end of the summit Carter planned on holding a nationally-televised conference, in which he would tell the nation about what he had learned and how he was going to lead them out of the current energy crisis. Caddell, One of Carter’s advisers, argued that after fifteen years filled with assassinations, Vietnam, Watergate, and a declining economy, Americans were suffering from a general "crisis of confidence. ... He told the president to address this fundamental problem and inspire the country to overcome it. ... Others in Carter’s administration, led by the Vice President Walter Mondale, strongly disagreed with Caddell. ... ” He suggested that Carter should address those problems, and ask the nation for their support. ... This was probably the worst decision Carter had made in his presidency. On the evening of July 15, 1979, millions of Americans tuned in to hear Jimmy Carter give the most important speech of his presidency. Carter first shared some of the criticism he received at Camp David, and then announced that the solution to the energy crisis can help America overcome its faltering spirits. ... (Carter, “Crisis of Confidence”) He blamed the American people when he should have looked internally.
Approximate Word count = 3117
Approximate Pages = 12.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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